Montage
On the Margins
Filmmaker John Armstrong’s “outdoor adventures” find the human spirit.
by Lydialyle Gibson
Cultural Chaos
Forty years ago, millions of China’s urban youth rose up in response to the Great Helmsman’s call to “bombard the...
Ideas, Appassionato
Daniel Barenboim’s prodigious musical career has generated both acclaim and controversy. In September, the pianist and conductor...
Palace Indignities
Alexis Gregory ’57 is a collector of Renaissance and Baroque bronzes, a member of the Harvard University Art Museums Collections Committee...
A Lesson with Liv
The singer-songwriter Livingston Taylor was artist-in-residence in Lowell House from 2000 through September, participating in House life and...
The FOX News Channel News We Can Use
From an entry in The Republican Playbook (Hyperion, $16.95), containing all the schemes, scams, and dirty tricks used to achieve victory since...
Arriflex and Amber
At nightfall, the hyenas began to cry and laugh after we had eaten and were enjoying our recent successes in the art of nonfiction filmmaking...
by Craig Lambert
Off the Shelf
Union 1812: The Americans Who Fought the Second War of Independence, by A.J. Langguth 55 (Simon & Schuster, $30). This gripping history of...
Chapter & Verse
Martha Neumann hopes to learn if Freud indeed made a comment often attributed to him: Immortality is being loved by many anonymous people. Ann...
Admissions Equity
A review of Daniel Golden’s The Price of Admission: How Americas Ruling Class Buys Its Way into Elite Colleges and Who Gets Left Outside the Gates
by John S. Rosenberg
Big Sky Blues
In high school, Philip Aaberg 71 took train voyages lasting 12 hours each way between his hometown of Chester, Montana, and Spokane to study...
by Craig Lambert